The Trump Administration and Human Rights

Donald Trump’s second term as United States president has already undermined human rights in the US and around the world. From women’s rights and reproductive freedom to immigrants' rights, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights, and risks to environmental progress, people are experiencing diminished rights and much remains at stake. The current Trump administration has doubled-down on it rights-abusing first-term record, its embrace of white supremacist supporters and ideology, the extreme antidemocratic and anti-rights policies enacted, the mass raids, detention, and deportation of thousands of immigrants, including some citizens, and elimination of government accountability and transparency, plus weaponization of government against political opponents. The current Trump administration has also drastically and lethally cut foreign aid including human rights efforts, and is partnering with rights-abusing governments in ways that fuel rising authoritarianism around the world.